Marathon training, long-term

Mary Miller Jen A. Miller nearly 20 Mile of New Jersey Marathon in Long Branch, New Jersey

Until the riders cross the starting line of the Marathon from New Jersey, they hear two things: the clarion call to say go us to our post, followed by agreements ripping of "Born to Run." by Bruce Springsteen

When I got to the starting line earlier this month, I knew that my 18 weeks of training would come down for the next five hours. This training? Some would say unconventional, even controversial. I used "" method Hansons Marathon: a fastest renegade to your Marathon path. ' "

Unlike the other marathon training programs, which usually have a series of 20 km or more, the peaks of the Hansons out at 16 km method, an attractive draw. But the training is difficult, with runs six days a week and the middle of the week runs extending 12 km. The goal is to train on the legs tired, to prepare yourself for the last 16 miles of the race and not the 20 first.

I chose it because I wanted a time better. And I didn't cry over the course, or collapse after the race.

I ran two marathons before. The first, the Philadelphia 2011 Marathon, was, well, a first marathon. I walked much of the last 10 miles, but I finished in 4 hours, 35 minutes and 31 seconds and does not require immediate medical attention, so I considered it a victory.

In 2012, I ran the Chicago Marathon. A health problem unrelated to the operation cut my training three days a week. I even ran it - very slowly and painfully, in a little less than five hours.

Keith and Kevin Hanson were professional racers and enthusiasts training for more than 20 years. Last year the brothers with Luke Humphrey, an exercise physiologist and one of their coaches, published "Hansons Marathon method." In this document, they have thrown virtually all marathon program standards.

' Everyone asks: "why a 16-miler?' My question is, why a 20-miler? ', said Kevin Hanson. " "I'll tell you why. Because you have been brainwashed. Because each program there has a 20-miler, so it must be good?"

Instead, the program form of runners by having them run on the legs tired, prompting ready for the marathon, say, by constructing the cumulative fatigue.

The beginner program, which caps at 57 miles per week, includes three sets of 16 miles - but you're not well rested when you make them. 16-Miler is made on a Sunday after a six - to eight - mile run Saturday, a Friday performance on short and long tempo run Thursday. Monday I was rerun, followed by a training session of interval Tuesday and Wednesday a day of rest.

"Running on tired legs is a big part of our plan, because he must get used to it," said Keith Hanson. "It is not a bad thing to feel tired."

As I made it through week 10 week 11 week 12, I felt a change. I lost weight, a first for me in the marathon training, even though I was eating about 3,000 calories per day. I felt stronger, fitter and faster, something I have never reached during execution of three or four days a week.

"If someone can run three days a week, I don't think they will be well prepared for the marathon," said Keith Hanson. "You cannot possibly callous your body to the rigors of the marathon itself."

I would never go so much in my life. It was exhausting and draining. I found the cancellation of dates with family and friends and crashing at 20 but I have the chance. I'm freelance and work at home, so I could set more long mid-week cycles, which can come at least 12 miles - as well as action plans - daytime national. I do not know how I would have stuck them if I had an Office job.

I have also developed very painful shinsplints, generally attributed to a total mileage in runners, who had missing me workouts in the last month of the program, and turned my ankle during training, an injury that never quite went away.

"40 To 50 miles a week, I think that people are putting their health in danger, unless they are at a higher level," said Dr. David Webner, Director of medicine at Crozer-Keystone in Pennsylvania health system. "It is much for the recreational marathoner."

Dr. Webner recommends that occasional marathon run three days a week, mixed with not bearing weight exercises as elliptical workouts and swimming, to minimize the risk of injury.

However, when this bugle was Sunday, I felt ready. And Kevin Hanson was right: I could feel my rhythm almost to the second without using a GPS watch.

I've knocked out of 5, 10, 15 km located on schedule and was surprised when I got to 20 miles. The crash desolation and pain and anguish I felt in Philadelphia and Chicago? Absent. I had been passing the brand people at halfway, but 20 km, I was mowing them in clumps. I've never stopped walking. I even took the pace, and at the time that I hit 42 kilometres, I was tired, but smiling.

I've crossed the finish line, arms raised, at 4 hours 19 minutes 7 seconds, beating my personal best by more than 16 minutes.

After the race, I grabbed a pretzel soft and with a bottle of water and a Bloody Mary. No lamentation. Not in ruins. I even stayed late playing Pinball that night there.

I do not know if I'll put me through the Hansons method again. I like to run, but I don't want to get my life back.

But does a job? Absolutely. The evidence is not just time, but in the smile.

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